San Vicente Pacaya is a town and municipality in the Escuintla department of Guatemala.
Gustavo Adolfo Palma was a Guatemalan singer, actor, and lyric tenor between 1936 and 1970, nicknamed "the Tenor of Central America" by Guatemalan radio personality José Flamenco y Cotero.
Julio Roberto Suárez Guerra is a Guatemalan banker who served as the president of the Bank of Guatemala from 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2018. He spent the majority of his term detained, relating to a large-scale fraud case, of which he was cleared on appeal in July 2019.
Jayro Bustamante is a Guatemalan film director and screenwriter. He directed the 2015 film Ixcanul, which was selected as the Guatemalan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. He was named on the jury for the Best First Feature Award at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival.
María Mercedes Coroy is a Guatemalan actress of Kaqchikel Maya descent. She is known for her roles in Ixcanul, La Llorona, Bel Canto, Malinche, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Sara Curruchich is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter of Kaqchikel descent. She sings in both Spanish and the Kaqchikel language, and is one of the first musicians to use the latter in popular music. She became well known in her country with her 2015 song "Ch'uti'xtän" ("Girl"). Since then, she has released two albums and multiple singles. Curruchich is also an activist in defense of women's and indigenous people's rights. For her work as an activist, she has won the MIAW Transformer Award at the 2021 MTV Millennial Awards, and been selected for the Ford Fellowship Foundation Global Fellowship Program.
General elections were held in Guatemala on 25 June 2023 to elect the president and vice president, all 160 seats in Congress, all 20 members of the Central American Parliament, and mayors and councils for all the country's 340 municipalities. Incumbent president Alejandro Giammattei was constitutionally prohibited from running for a second four-year term. However, as no presidential candidate obtained over 50 percent of the vote in the first round on 25 June 2023, a second round was held between the top two finishers on 20 August 2023: Congressman Bernardo Arévalo of the Movimiento Semilla and Sandra Torres, a former first lady representing the National Unity of Hope (UNE) party. Arévalo defeated Torres in the second round with nearly 61 percent of the vote in what was seen as a landslide. The ruling Vamos party won the largest number of seats in Congress.
Cabal is a political party in Guatemala led by Edmond Mulet. In English, the party's name can be translated literally as "thorough", or colloquially as "exact" or "spot on".
The following lists events in the year 2023 in Guatemala.
The Silence of the Mole is a 2021 Guatemalan documentary film directed by Anaïs Taracena. It tells the story of the journalist Elías Barahona, better known as The Mole, who between 1976 and 1980 was infiltrated as press secretary of the Guatemalan Ministry of the Interior. It was selected as the Guatemalan entry in the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
Autoerotic is a 2021 Peruvian coming-of-age drama film directed, written and co-produced by Andrea Hoyos in her directorial debut. It stars Rafaella Mey and Micaela Céspedes accompanied by María del Carmen Gutiérrez, Wendy Vásquez, Renato Rueda, César Ritter, Beto Benites and Laynol Zavaleta. It is about a 15-year-old teenager who explores her sexuality through an online dating program.
About Everything There Is to Know is a 2021 Peruvian documentary film directed, written and edited by Sofía Velásquez Núñez.
The 28th Fantasia International Film Festival was held from 18 July to 4 August, 2024 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Familia is a 2023 Mexican drama film directed by Rodrigo García and written by García and Bárbara Colio. Starring Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ilse Salas, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Natalia Solián, Ángeles Cruz and Maribel Verdú. It is about the consequences in the family environment after the father decides to sell the olive ranch where everyone lived warm memories.
Valentina or the Serenity is a 2023 Mexican drama film written, co-produced and directed by Ángeles Cruz. Starring Danae Ahuja Aparicio who plays a little girl who will use her imagination to face the premature death of her father. It had its world premiere at the 48th Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2023 as part of the Discovery section.
Aire: Just Breathe, or simply Aire, is a 2024 post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film co-written, co-produced and directed by Leticia Tonos. Starring Sophie Gaëlle, Paz Vega and Jalsen Santana. The film follows a biologist's journey to preserve what remains of humanity by implanting artificial intelligence to inseminate herself. It was selected as the Dominican entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.
